I started to get sent on extended back to back Business trips to Japan. Turns out you have a lot of free time when TV is in Japanese. The hotel had an attached athletic club that I began to visit nightly (nothing better to do) and my diet fixed itself seeing as what you eat in Japan is rice and fish 3-4 meals a day /w sushi snacks in between. Lo and behold I began to make gains. Motivation was off the hook seeing as I’m 6’2” so even with my modest gains I was the “big” guy in the gym. (ok so the cliental was also old Japanese business men, but hey).

It makes me feel better physically and mentally.